Italicised text represents the character's thoughts, and italicised text in between ( ) are Shouko sans fantasies, { } Kyoko's, and [ ] Sho's fantasies. A ShoXKyoko fanfiction. Both of them are 19 years old, so it's been about three years since the beginning of the manga Skip Beat!, and Kyoko and Ren have gotten together and broken up, and Sho has grown up a little.